V1  Im half way home  But its still a long road to be traveled  And I know at any given moment  Things can go soar    From sweet to the streets on fire  Problems unravel  Still holdin my breath  Boots laced for battle    In a place  Where they would gladly  See me scattered all over they streets  Cause here my life don't matter    And thought they smile  Underneath those grins  They only waitin on they next chance  To try to kill me again    And don't be caught thinking out here  That your chances are slim  Cause there are those who have thought it  Who will never think again    Cause we're alone in this country  140, 000 friends  and some 20 odd million  that ed see us all dead    you could only imagine our struggle  the odds were against  where they are at all times  playin both sides of the fence    and thought they havnt gotten me yet  I still aint home  And till then  Its only a matter time till im gone    Chorus  Its only a matter of time For they get me  Though so far they missed me  Next time they shoot in my direction  Could be the one that hits me    Yeah the odds is against me  Lucks been wit me so far  I know deaths round the corner  But I don't know how far    And I aint trying to hear my #  Though it could be the next one called  Told my family I'd be home  But iraqs trying to prove me wrong    This weighs heavy on my shoulders  I can only be so strong  sure we all gon survive  But we don't know how long    V2  Started out with 60 minutes  In the game of our lives  And so far thank god  Everything is alright    From bein in the middle of the street  In the middle of the night  Where they are baitin they hooks  Castin and hopin I bite    And its too late  Here to be worried whether or not this is right  When its somebody on every corner  Ready to widow my wife    And I can feel it more than a lil bit  Impactin my life  Got me wantin to kill everything  That moves into my sight    Cause I can lose only once  And there are no rematches  And there is no 2 minute warning  cant brace for it happens    so we face it  and come so close we can taste it  the one trip we take everyday  and hope we never make it    cause deaths right behind us  and some of us will never shakem  but when we are challenged  we can not refuse to playem    so we knuckle the fuck up  and start swinging  know its only a matter of time  but right now we are not leavin    chorus    v3  look here, im trying to keep it together  but things fall apart  specially when im gon for so long  losin feelin in my heart    desensitized by my surroundings  every colors turning dark  I don't see nothing beautiful no more  Only targets my reticle marks    Was emotional then emotionless  Now I don't feel a thing  And though it once killed me to kill  I'd gladly do it again    If only you could really understand  The state of mind that im in  Only then could you feel me  Only then would I make sense    If only I hadn't a been to  some of the places I had been  If only I wouldn't a seen what I saw  Maybe I could feel again    But its too hard to separate  Whats goin on within me  Its just so much easier  To let hate be my remedy    So for everything im guilty of  Let the lord sentence me  If only I wouldnt a let everything  I been thru get to me    Things could a been different  But that is not my reality  And either way  Its only a matter of time for im outta here.